Monitoring System Saves Lives in Rock Fall

摘要

During the night of 14 May 2012, some 300,000 cubic metres of rock broke off the Valegion mountain and crashed 1,000 m down to the valley floor below in the Swiss canton of Ticino, near the village of Preonzo. Thanks in part to Leica Geosystems' Deformation Monitoring solution GeoMoS, local authorities were able to evacuate the valley's industrial zone and to close the A2 highway and several cantonal roads at an early stage, thus preventing human casualties. The automatic monitoring system has provided continuous information about every movement in the affected zone.